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Originally Posted by Seahawk

Condors are essentially big buzzards, magnificent big buzzards.

In 1977 or so we were still running the Stanislaus River...the New Melones Dam would open a few years later.

There was a part of the river that was pond-like and slowly flowed into rock dace that had a lot of moss on it.

My passengers on the raft that day were German. I remember because the daughter was spectacular and her two brothers were funny, very funny.

About half way through the pond, a very large Condor was coasting up the river towards us, maybe six feet off the Stani.

No one said a word. It glided right over us, looked right at us: You could hear the wind over the wings.

It was quiet in the raft for a good minute.

It's easy to see how they would have that effect.



All these stories "hot au pair with a painfully hot Swedish friend that was an au pair," "hot German tourist," etc....

Dude, you've gotta start coming up with pics...